2026-09-16

Generic “AI video enhancer” search is won by tabs that ask for a file. That is a reasonable product if you have one clip and a quiet NDA. It is a non-starter if you are digitizing a box of tapes.

Cloud enhancers have to see the media. You wait on their queue, their compression, their retention policy, and their bill. A four-hour overnight batch on the card already in the machine does not negotiate any of that.

FrameLathe is built around that job: Windows desktop, presets, a queue, review in the morning. Footage is not uploaded. There is no cloud processing path. The site waitlist is an email list, not an ingest pipe.

We are not claiming a mystery quality score against every hosted model. We are claiming the shape of the work: local GPU, overnight, nothing in the clip leaves the disk for enhancement. If you need a browser, wink.ai-class tools exist. If you need the box of tapes done by morning, that is a different machine.